moody

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9front, vocaloid and old games. I guard the nightly 9front builds.

Plan 9 only alt: [@m00dy@mastodon.sdf.org](https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/m00dy )

pronouns: he/him
github: https://github.com/majiru
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website: https://posixcafe.org

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2024-06-18 16:54:38

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That's true, I had forgot about those proposals. Perhaps microsoft pushing these snapdragon consumer laptops might also contribute to some change. It would be interesting to see a new x86 ISA version.

2024-06-18 16:11:37

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Unless someone is a nerd wanting to work on something related to an ISA (compiler, kernel and so on) I would largely say that the choice of ISA isn't much an impact, outside of perhaps software compatibility and prebuilt packages. However there are forces at play that color what the priorities are for each ISA. ARM wants power efficiency, x86 wants backwards compatibility. While I don't doubt a "no legacy and cleaned up" x86 would do quite well, I don't think we'll see it.

2024-06-15 14:51:35

Next part in the video series I'm doing on Plan 9 design, this time talking about file abstractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8X5i6BFZiY

2024-06-15 01:11:50

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/11/niconico_ebiten_kadokawa_cyberattack_outages/ RIP nico nico, crazy that they would get hit like this

2024-06-14 17:52:58

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Yeah I finally got audio with screen sharing in firefox thanks to some nixos flake, so all the more reason to just use it from there.

2024-06-14 17:41:01

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yeah using it in the browser works. Discord is running via XWayland, so it still uses the X11 method for screen sharing, which limits it to only sharing other applications running under XWayland. It sucked as it was, but I could at least stream video games to my friends.

2024-06-14 16:05:31

Screen sharing with discord on linux has been broken for like 3 months with wayland.

2024-06-13 16:02:35

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https://github.com/bilbof/whoishiring-ratio

2024-06-13 15:46:14

Job market sucks.

2024-04-08 17:51:34

Thinking about how prof(1) could be better. There is a lot to dislike about the tooling as is, but the hooks the linker generates are quite powerful. I'd like a flame graph tool and the death of $profsize for starters.

2024-04-08 03:52:59

Took a look at porting tree sitter to 9front today but they do some cursed stuff with bit fields to satisfy some alignment assumption their code makes so nah not happening.

2024-04-07 04:36:46

RIP miku expo, crunchyroll strikes again.

2024-04-04 15:05:22

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I think it really gets an unfairly bad wrap. The first time I think I really "got it" as a structural tool was reading the libdraw code in Plan 9. There it is used for function unwinding so every allocation has a corresponding label that will jump to the next one to slowly undo any heap allocations made by a function in the event of an error.

2024-04-03 22:18:46

Wrote an updated blog post about the current status of the Talos 2. Not too far along with the port but wanted to correct my previous post about getting it working with some help from Raptor. https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/04/03/0/

2024-04-03 21:34:05

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Yeah give those a look, they tend to be a bit on the larger side so if you want something more smaller and focused I might be able to find something. Or if you have some ideas about what type of projects you like to work on more broadly maybe we could find something that fits.

2024-04-03 20:36:19

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Yeah sure, do you have an idea about things you want to work on or would be interested in? If not there are some ideas listed https://orib.dev/tmp/student-ideas.txt and [http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2024-ideas/index.html.](http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2024-ideas/index.html)

2024-04-03 19:17:23

Just throwing this out there, but if anyone is new to Plan 9/9front and either don't know a project to start working on or are intimidated to get going I can always help get going. Send me an email or a DM.

2024-04-03 17:35:15

I would be very interested to see if someone could get a reproducible build of 9front going. Probably isn't _too_ hard, just need enough to get kencc compiled (and by extension yacc). Would make for a cool IWP9 paper.

2024-04-02 16:03:26

Thanks to a patch from the community the Korean input method for 9front has improved greatly. In general I've been really happy with how ktrans has turned out.

2024-04-01 19:14:21

Also just for the record I am really not some long time ppc fan or anything. My current impression from reading the ISA so far is that it's like just fine, but maybe I just don't get it yet. I'm more interested in this process of porting than I am in the power64 ISA itself. The talos 2 just happened to exist at the intersection of "is a desktop" and "need a port to run 9front".

2024-04-01 18:35:09

Really wish I could just work on 9front all day...

2024-04-01 15:19:33

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Just how the MMU works. The SLB and HPTAB both work pretty different compared to other other systems. POWER9 does have a radix implementation these days but I want to try the "true" ppc method.

2024-04-01 03:59:22

Memory address translation on power64 is what I would call quirky.

2024-04-01 03:59:22

Memory address translation on power64 is what I would call quirky.